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I'm producing a short film with my friends called Lost Treasure Of The Valley. It's an action adventure movie that takes the cult film mentality of films like Repo Man and combines them with the sincerity and adventure of 80s films like Explorers, set against Sergio Leone style visuals.

We have an incredible Director and a great crew that has worked on shows like Robot Chicken and Super Mension. Even better, we have two 90s icons in our cast - "All That's" Lori Beth Denberg and Greg Lee, host of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego."

We're currently sitting at 60% of our goal with 24 days left. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll make it. So far most of our funding has come through PPC and Social Media targeting fans of the actors.

We did a podcast last week that gave us a bump and we have another one we did that's going live today and we'll see how it goes. I think more than anything they give credibility to the project if not translating into a direct dollar amount. The biggest success we had was through working various social media accounts that already had a lot of followers and credibility, we always saw a good rise after tweets/posts from twitter users with 15k or so followers. Blowing out FB ads also helped fill in the gaps during lulls.

We're over 90% funded now and slowing but I think we'll make it. In hindsight, I feel like I probably did a lot of initiative too early and for my next project would most likely wait until there were 7 days left to really promote via FB and google ads, as I saw a good surge from those in the very beginning that would've been helpful over this last week.